Indian Beach
Indian Beach is a beach in California, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Mount Tamalpais West Peak stands 778 m to the southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Heart's Desire Beach, a beach 0.4 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Vision: 3.6 mi
- Walker Peak: 3.9 mi
- Point Reyes Hill: 4.3 mi
- Echo Rock: 4.4 mi
- Three Peaks: 5.2 mi
- Whale Ballet (Totem 6 of 8): 14.6 mi
- Scuba Brown: 15.2 mi
- Down the Rabbit Hole: 15.3 mi
- Frolicking Dolphin: 15.4 mi
- Poseidon: 15.4 mi
- Tomales Bay State Park: 1.0 mi
- Marconi Conference Center State Historic Park: 1.0 mi
- Marconi Conference Center & Historic Park: 1.1 mi
- Second Valley Path and Open Space: 3.2 mi
- Martinelli Park: 3.7 mi
- Tomales Bay Ecological Reserve: 4.9 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore: 5.0 mi
- French Ranch Open Space Preserve: 14.7 mi
- Maurice Thorner Memorial Open Space Preserve: 15.0 mi
- Roy's Redwoods Open Space Preserve: 15.2 mi
- Heart's Desire Beach: 0.4 mi
- Long Cove Beach: 1.3 mi
- Shell Beach: 1.8 mi
- Teachers Beach: 2.2 mi
- Chicken Ranch Beach: 2.6 mi
- Probably repair location of Golden Hind June 1579: 5.6 mi
- Golden Hinde landing: 7.5 mi
- Francis Drake memorial: 8.4 mi
- Point Reyes National Seashore dedication plaque: 8.5 mi
- CPO Academy Pergola: 9.5 mi
- TRACEN Community Gardens: 9.5 mi
- McNear Community Gardens: 15.3 mi
- San Geronimo Valley Community Garden: 15.3 mi
- Inn at the Tides Sculpture Garden: 15.5 mi
- Ren Brown Gallery Zen Garden: 16.1 mi
- The Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History: 3.7 mi
- Historic USCG Boathouse: 10.8 mi
- The Phoenix Collection Tea Museum: 13.7 mi
- Petaluma Historical Museum and Library: 15.4 mi
- Marin Museum of the American Indian: 16.0 mi
- Point Reyes Shipwrecks: 3.7 mi
- Cypress Tree Tunnel: 4.1 mi
- Tule Elk Reserve, Pierce Pt., Pt. Reyes NS: 4.6 mi
- Kule Loklo: 8.1 mi
- Leo T. Cronin Fish Viewing Area: 13.8 mi
- Bear Valley Picnic area: 8.5 mi
- Redwood Grove Group Picnic Area: 12.1 mi
- Azalea Picnic Area: 12.2 mi
- Irving Group Picnic Area: 12.6 mi
- Helen Putnam: 13.6 mi
- Stairstep Falls: 11.8 mi
- Alamere Falls: 14.1 mi
- Roy's Riffles: 15.4 mi
- Buck Gulch Falls: 17.4 mi
- Little Carson Falls: 18.0 mi
- Crystal Springs: 12.9 mi
- Broko Spring: 20.0 mi
- Worn Springs: 21.2 mi
- Colier Spring: 21.8 mi
- Rock Springs: 22.0 mi
- Point Reyes Light Station: 11.8 mi
- Paint Storage: 11.9 mi
- Point Reyes Lighthouse Visitor Center: 11.9 mi
- Transformer Building: 12.0 mi
- Power House: 12.0 mi
- Tomales Bluff: 8.8 mi
- Rock Fort: 20.9 mi
- Vent 5: 23.5 mi
- Goat Rock: 24.4 mi
- Osprey Rocks: 24.4 mi
- Keyhole: 11.5 mi
- Temple: 11.9 mi
- Arched Rock: 23.9 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 22.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.3 miles of Indian Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | SE 132° | 778 m | 22.0 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais Middle Peak | SE 131° | 744 m | 22.2 mi |
| Sonoma Mountain | NE 54° | 697 m | 21.6 mi |
| Ballou Point | SE 136° | 612 m | 21.5 mi |
| Twin Knolls | SE 136° | 597 m | 20.8 mi |
| Big Rock Ridge | ESE 109° | 575 m | 16.8 mi |
| Pine Mountain | SE 130° | 543 m | 17.3 mi |
| Loma Alta | ESE 117° | 484 m | 17.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:16 | 18:49 | 19:24 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 19:59 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 07:00 | 18:35 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 16:14 | 16:56 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jan–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 50 | 51 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 55 | 57 | 57 | 58 | 56 | 53 | 50 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 2.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.8 | 2.9 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bodega 6 WSW, 16 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Reynolds, Tomales Bay, CA, under a mile away — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/239526458
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